The purpose of this statement is to provide insight into how the CCP’s influence and ambitions are undermining America. I want to clearly distinguish the difference between the Chinese people and the Communist Chinese party regime. My remarks are entirely focused on the CCP regime and its ideology. My hope is that after reading this statement, you will consider it and then act upon what you learn… each of you in a way that maximizes your own expertise, your unique knowledge, and your particular area of focus.
As is well documented, China has been working for decades to build its economic and military capacity in an effort to achieve its stated objective of global dominance by 2035. In only 30 years, China has gone from being a potential threat to America to being an imminent threat: politically, economically, and militarily.
In order to understand the complexity of the effort, it is essential to understand the pillars that buttress the CCP. Together these pillars increase the CCP’s strategic reach and tactical agility, increasing their influence, strength, and control in the arena of economics, technology, space, and warfare.
The pillars are as follows:
Pillar 1: Military-Civil Fusion
Military-Civil Fusion in China refers to the use of civilian fronts as a cover for work being done on behalf of the military and CCP.
Two examples:
Inside China, there is no functional difference between a civilian virology lab and a military virology lab. Scientists from the People’s Liberation Army carry out bioweapons research in labs disguised to look like civilian labs. They do this all over China, including in Hong Kong….including the WHO reference lab in which I worked in Hong Kong.
For example, why would General Wei Chen, a military bioweapons expert, take over the civilian Wuhan Institute of Virology in February 2020? She has been put in charge of covering up evidence of bioweapon research at the WIV. In May of 2021, she was promoted to Vice Chairman of the China Association for Science and Technology.
In July 2020, a Chinese researcher was arrested in California after hiding her military affiliations. Juan Tang was one of four visiting researchers who had infiltrated a university in Sacramento. She had arrived in the US in December 2019, just as the virus was beginning to emerge in Wuhan. Ultimately, all four infiltrators were charged with visa fraud.
However, questions arise:
> What intellectual property did they steal?
> Were any American scientists compromised by these CCP agents?
A more current example involves Dr. Lanying Du from the New York Blood Center in Manhattan. She is the wife of a now-dead PLA scientist, Yu-Shen Zhou. Zhou was a leading virologist and immunologist. He was studying a Covid-19 variant in a PLA lab in China in May 2020. Soon after, he died unexpectedly. That variant coincidently is the same variant that later appeared in the UK in September 2020. Du, his wife, remains an important link in the CCP network. She graduated from a PLA university and then moved to the lab where I worked in HK to complete her Ph.D. From there, she went to the New York Blood Center. This is important because it gives her access to the genetic data of Americans.
The CCP has long been interested in genetic bioweapons. She is also important to the CCP’s military-civilian network inside America—which includes Dr. Fang Li, a sitting professor at the University of Minnesota, and Dr. Ralph Baric at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Together they have received millions of dollars of grant money from the NIH for studies related to the coronavirus and the vaccines.
Having CCP agents embedded in US universities is a very significant threat to America. These informants include professors, researchers, and even students. In some cases, they are here to serve the CCP, but in many cases, they are forced to serve the CCP by stealing scientific knowledge and research data. They are also here to establish professional networks that can exploit, manipulate and compromise American scientists. The US must realize the danger and immediately scrutinize it.
https://www.americaoutloud.com/open-letter-to-us-legislators-from-dr-li-meng-yan/
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